Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. Hope Academy is the nearest published school at 273 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA12 0FF
Newton-le-Willows West · St. Helens · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North
- Postcode district
- WA12
- Postcode sector
- WA12 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA12 0FF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 June 2001
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA12
- Postcode sector
- WA12 0
- Latitude
- 53.460236
- Longitude
- -2.627979
- British National Grid easting
- 358,402
- British National Grid northing
- 396,125
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- St. Helens · E08000013
- Electoral ward
- Newton-le-Willows West · E05014127
- Parish or community
- E43000300
- Westminster constituency
- St Helens North · E14001509
- Output area
- E00034795
- Lower layer super output area
- St. Helens 010C · E01006868
- Middle layer super output area
- St. Helens 010 · E02001415
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WA12
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 43
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 273 m
Hope Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 568 m
St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 685 m
Newton-le-Willows Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,608
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 711
- Shoplifting 179
- Public order 152
- Anti social behaviour 125
- Criminal damage and arson 113
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA12 0 residents
- 4,835
Age bands in WA12 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- 866 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- 507 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- 1,188 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- 1,171 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
- 801 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
14
within 5 km straight-line
NEWTON PRACTICE
1 BELVEDERE ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 0JJ
ODS code N83045
770 m
VISTA ROAD SURGERY
VISTA LOCALITY CENTRE, VISTA ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9ED
ODS code N83005
1.2 km
PATTERDALE LODGE MED CTRE
PATTERDALE LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE, LEGH STREET, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9NA
ODS code N83002
1.4 km
MODALITY ST HELENS
WOODSIDE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, WOODSIDE ROAD, HAYDOCK, ST. HELENS, WA11 0NA
ODS code N83020
2.1 km
FAMILY MEDICAL PRACTICE
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92639
3.1 km
GOLBORNE SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92630
3.1 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KIDGLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92012
3.1 km
BRYN STREET SURGERY
ASHTON HEALTH CENTRE, COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code Y02378
3.1 km
MEDICENTRE
COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code P92001
3.1 km
ASHTON MEDICAL CENTRE
120 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9SU
ODS code P92041
4.0 km
BRAITHWAITE RD SURGERY
36 BRAITHWAITE ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2HY
ODS code P92002
4.0 km
SLAG LANE MC
216 SLAG LANE, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2EZ
ODS code P92648
4.0 km
LOWTON & PLATT BRIDGE SURGERY
208C NEWTON ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2AQ
ODS code P92651
4.6 km
BRYN CROSS SURGERY
246 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, BRYN, WIGAN, WN4 0AR
ODS code P92034
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 140 m
Hope Academy
BCT · Newton le Willows
- 158 m
Cheltenham Drive
BCT · Crow Lane
- 165 m
Davies Avenue
BCT · Crow Lane
- 254 m
Mullins Avenue
BCT · Crow Lane
- 300 m
Selwyn Jones Sports Centre Hail and Ride
BCT · Newton le Willows
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for St. Helens 010C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,383 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,608 published events cover 12 months, averaging 134 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 711 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.